Collage and Mixed Media - Mansfield Woodhouse Library - Adult Learning

• Date: 3 June - 8 July 2025
• Sessions: Tuesdays: 1pm - 4pm
• No. sessions: 6
• Venue: Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield
• For ages: 19+
• Group size: 5 - 10
• Cost: FREE - £63
  

Open a whole world of colour and pattern with this innovative approach to collage. Step by step instructions demonstrate how to create countless patterns on paper or canvas and how to use colour to make your collages come alive. You will be taught how gestural brushstrokes and mark-making gives the impression of spontaneity in your compositions. You will benefit from this course as your style of painting will become looser, full of energy and colour. Experiment the pure joy of mark-making by playing with colour and texture using a combination of different art materials and techniques on a single work. This course is suitable for Beginners or those with more experience.

The emphasis of the course is to focus on editing, colour balance, tone and composition. Explore process: techniques of mark making with complementary and monochromatic colour palette to achieve interesting visual effects

Working out innovative, dynamic compositions, full of energy and colours

Using a bright, colourful palette, with dynamic and bold mark making

Painting techniques: impasto, scumbling, sgrafitto, layering and blending

Collage technique

Varnishing

Resources required by attendees:

• Acrylic or watercolour paper, white acrylic gesso, 30x 40cm stretched canvas, palette knife (not plastic), glycerin*, spray bottle, synthetic brushes, apron, baby wipes, cotton rags , photo references, inks, acrylic paint:
• Red (Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Red,
• Yellow (Lemon and Cadmiun Yellow),
• Blue (Ultramarine, and Cerulean),
• Magenta , Turquoise, Titanium white

The art materials are to be discussed during the first session of the course when the tutor will cover the topic.

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

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• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

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Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

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